BCG - Global IT Senior Director - Domain Architect - Human Resources Segment (16-20 yrs)

Global IT Senior Director - Domain Architect - HR

Position Description:

- To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. Delivering our clients unrivalled experience of exceptional service, value and flexibility is part of our DNA. We are looking for people who are passionate about Digital Products Transformation, Innovation and Agile ways of working and want to spread this approach within our teams and business processes. To execute this transformation, we need people who take the lead in defining standards and guardrails of working and developing expertise further within the teams.

- We are seeking a senior leader to bring our Digital Products vision to reality in partnership with BCG's HR teams. As a senior technology leader, you will act as a pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product teams, enabling them to go faster, safely, and prevent solutions that are hard to change and stifle innovation. You will be responsible for the technology architecture and vision of digital HR solutions that enable our teams to create the best experience for our employees and HR Teams.

- You will bring industry best practices to design and implement secure, performant and scalable solutions. You will closely collaborate with solution architects embedded in the HR Products team and the Enterprise Architecture function to bring the best to our teams. You will also participate in mentoring and coaching junior architects around latest industry trends and the BCG internal benchmarks around solution architecture and engineering. You will work closely with broader technology teams to align to an enterprise vision for integrated solutions within and beyond HR systems at BCG.

- As a Domain Architect, you will define and design technology solutions that optimize our solutions for rapid innovation whilst also making sure we manage risks such as cyber security and operational resilience. In your role you will act as the bridge between enterprise architecture and engineering and will own the design of end-to-end solutions within the HR product portfolio. You will optimize against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g. security, usability), cost, and enterprise-wide goals (e.g., cloud and API enablement). You will document/review architecture views and deliver architecture artefacts required by the delivery process and enable teams to maximize the automation in the deployment pipeline. You will also be accountable to understand the Gen AI advancement across the function and bring together a cohesive vision to drive Gen AI based solutions within the HR Digital Portfolio.

- Moreover, you will be a hands-on participant in architecture proof of concepts, innovation initiatives, and performance tuning activities. Researching/analyzing emerging technologies, as well as designing and advocating new technologies, architectures, and products in collaboration with system and service owners is part of your profile. Same is true for identifying risks within proposed solution architectures and developing mitigation plans, ensuring that solution architectures are scalable and sustainable for operations. You propose architectural epics and stories to implement the architectural runway and clear technical debt, document quality attributes in epics & stories, and define acceptance criteria.

- Ultimately you will be responsible for the portfolio architecture roadmap, aligned to the business capabilities & unlocks HR's process ambitions for both the mid and long term. Accountable for ensuring our technology is performant, secure & can scale at the pace of business innovation

Responsibilities:

- Own and influence architecture decisions across the Portfolio, ensuring it is in alignment with BCG standards, and design principles.

- Create reference architecture focused on design principles, detailed APIs, and major systems dependencies between business and IT

- Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision

- Clearly align the Data and Analytics roadmap into the overall architecture vision

- Analyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommend solutions for improvement

- Author the strategic architecture for the Portfolio to state the architecture needed to meet the business requirements

- Stay up to date with emerging technology trends within the industry to innovate and champion new technologies/frameworks/tools where appropriate

- Accountable for leading the solution architects within the Portfolio in terms of coaching and mentoring

You'Re Good At:

- To be successful, you should bring sound development and architecture experience leveraging technologies to drive technical governance, innovation, integration and cloud-oriented strategies. Ideally, you thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving, analytical and decision-making skills, and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for collaboration and open communication.

- Thought leadership in technology innovation and transformation

- Ability to define a clear architectural vision and roadmap for enterprise wide transformations and continuously innovating on existing solutions to bring productivity gains, better user experience

- Partnering with the Portfolio Lead, Technical Area Lead, Solution Architects, Technical Team

- Leads and Enterprise Architects to envision and deliver on the architectural roadmap and priorities for the portfolio

- Translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documenting all solution architecture design and analysis work

- Leading evaluation, analysis, and design for the implementation of a solution architecture

- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with and lead cross-functional groups; and to prioritize regular workload, special tasks, and concurrent projects, allocating time and resources to ensure that work is completed accurately and efficiently within an established time frame

- Valuing simplicity and being unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve an agile, high-performing team

- Comfortable partnering with Product Team Leads and providing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in the day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs

- Committing to cross-functional collaboration to achieve the best results for the organization

- Passionate about building enterprise-grade, scalable solutions, that add long-term value to the firm

- High level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and collaboration

- Building relationships and reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for others

- Performing successfully in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and professional services environment

- Interpreting rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and aligning with BCG's values and culture

- Exhibiting ownership and accountability for yourself and the team

- Attention to detail, well organized, and able to set priorities and take decisions

- Being flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed

Experience & Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in information science, data management, computer science or related field.

- 18+ years of relevant experience in IT architecture with strong technical background, preferably in large international professional services organizations

- Top notch communication skills and a strong ability to understand and communicate effectively with various cultures

- Experience with scalable architectures, API management, serverless technologies, and SaaS low code platform-tools/technologies (Especially Workday and top recruiting and learning SaaS products)

- Demonstrated experience around transforming data into a usable decision asset for the enterprise

- Demonstrated experience communicating complex system architecture technologies, patterns, artifacts, and roadmaps to senior business leadership

- Good understanding of technology-enabled business transformation, Digital transformation,

- Organizational transformation, delivering enterprise-level Digital projects

- Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and ways of working (Scrum, XP, DevOps.), understanding and applying a "servant leader" mindset, and with the ability to engage in Agile ceremonies to provide teams necessary direction and guidance

- IT Architect certification: Open Group certification (e.g., TOGAF Certified, Certified Architect Master)

Functional/Technical Skills:

- Strong experience as an IT architect in complex and heterogeneous environment

- Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of one or more enterprise level solutions (preferably in HR domain)

- Expertise in integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in highly complex environment

- Domain experience in HR solutions, ideally with experience in leading a HR Transformations

- Strong background on Data and Analytics integration for the overall business transformation

- High level of expertise in understanding data architecture and supporting technologies

- Experience in collaborating with agile development teams in reviewing application architecture, design and implementation against quality standards

- Expertise towards SOA & Microservices architecture implementation using REST APIs, queue based messaging patterns, relational and NoSQL databases

- Expertise towards knowledge of on-premise/cloud-based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, and deployments/configurations and definition/evangelism of best practices/standards

- Proven advanced experience with systems integration, IT industry standards, architecture principles design, and service level agreement definition

- Strong focus on promoting component re-use in architecture designs

- Experienced in software delivery including CI/CD and related DevSecOps practices, working with cloud-based platforms such as Azure or AWS

- Strong software design & development principles, with a focus on system stability, reusability, observability and performance optimized for a global audience

- Strong understanding of application testing, diagnostics and performance tuning

- Strong understanding of TDD and BDD methodologies

- And workable knowledge of

- Data ingestion pipelines

- Front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular & React

- AWS (Azure is a plus)

- And familiar with

- Scrum and Kanban development methodologies

- Automation, performance and load testing tools

You'Ll Work With:

The Domain Architect is a position within the HR Digital Portfolio focused on driving architecture and innovation for HR Solutions at BCG. The portfolio manages and delivers internal software solutions and IT product offerings to worldwide BCG and has a significant transformation roadmap ahead of us. The role will work closely with Product Team Level Solution Architects, Technical Area Lead, Chapter Leads, Product Team Leads, Product Owners other solution and enterprise architects within and outside of the portfolio